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GEORGE GLEIG (1753-1840)

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GEORGE See also:GLEIG (1753-1840)  , Scottish. divine, was See also:born at Boghall, See also:Kincardineshire, on the 12th of May 1753, the son of a See also:farmer . At the See also:age of thirteen he entered See also:King's See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, where the first See also:prize in See also:mathematics and See also:physical and moral sciences See also:fell to him . In his twenty-first See also:year he took orders in the Scottish Episcopal See also:Church, and was ordained to the See also:pastoral See also:charge of a See also:congregation at Pittenweem, See also:Fife, whence he removed in 1790 to See also:Stirling . He became a frequent contributor to the Monthly See also:Review, the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, the See also:Anti-Jacobin Review and the See also:British Critic . He also wrote severalarticles for the third edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and on the See also:death of the editor, See also:Colin Macfarquhar, in 1793, was engaged to edit the remaining volumes . Among his See also:principal contributions to this See also:work were articles on "See also:Instinct," " See also:Theology" and " See also:Metaphysics." The two supplementary volumes were mainly his own work . He was twice chosen See also:bishop of See also:Dunkeld, but the opposition of Bishop See also:Skinner, afterwards See also:primus, rendered the See also:election on both occasions ineffectual . In 18o8 he was consecrated assistant and successor to the bishop of See also:Brechin, in 18io was preferred to the See also:sole charge, and in 1816 was elected primus of the Episcopal Church of See also:Scotland, in which capacity he greatly aided in the introduction of many useful reforms, in fostering a more See also:catholic and tolerant spirit, and in cementing a See also:firm See also:alliance with the See also:sister church of See also:England . He died at Stirling on the 9th of See also:March 184o . Besides various sermons, See also:Gleig was the author of Directions for the Study of Theology, in a See also:series of letters from a bishop to his son on his See also:admission to See also:holy orders (1827); an edition of Stackhouse's See also:History of the See also:Bible (1817); and a See also:life of See also:Robertson the historian, prefixed to an edition of his See also:works . See Life of Bishop Gleig, by the Rev . W .

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Walker (1879) . Letters to See also:Henderson of See also:Edinburgh and See also:John See also:Douglas, bishop of See also:Salisbury, are in the British Museum . His third and only surviving son, See also:GEORGE See also:ROBERT GLEIG (1796-1888), was educated at See also:Glasgow University, whence he passed with a See also:Snell See also:exhibition to Balliol College, See also:Oxford . He abandoned his scholastic studies to enter the See also:army, and served with distinction in the See also:Peninsular See also:War (1813-14), and- in the See also:American War, in which he was thrice wounded . Resuming his work at Oxford, he proceeded B.A. in 1818, M.A. in 1821, and, having been ordained in 182o, held successively curacies at Westwell in See also:Kent and Ash (to the latter the rectory of See also:Ivy Church was added in 1822) . He was subsequently appointed See also:chaplain of See also:Chelsea See also:hospital (1824), chaplain-See also:general of the forces (1844-1875) and inspector-general of military See also:schools (1846-1857) . From 1848 till his death on the 9th of See also:July 1888 he was prebend of See also:Willesden in St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral . During the last sixty years of his life he was a prolific, if not very scientific, writer; he wrote for See also:Blackwood's Magazine and See also:Fraser's Magazine, and produced a large number of See also:historical works . Among the latter were (besides histories of the See also:campaigns in which he served), Life of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Munro (3 vols., 183o) ; History of See also:India (4 vols., 183o—1835); The Leipsic See also:Campaign and Lives of Military Commanders (1831); See also:Story of the See also:Battle of See also:Waterloo (1847); See also:Sketch of the Military History of See also:Great See also:Britain (1845) ; See also:Sale's See also:Brigade in See also:Afghanistan (1847); See also:biographies of See also:Lord See also:Clive (1848), the See also:duke of See also:Wellington (1862), and See also:Warren See also:Hastings (1848; the subject of See also:Macaulay's See also:essay, in which it is described as " three big See also:bad volumes full of undigested See also:correspondence and undiscerning See also:panegyric ") .

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